Description: She had been pretty, blond, barely out of her teens. Now Flap Tucker was staring up at her grotesquely disfigured face as her body dangled from a streetlight on the fringe of Atlanta's Piedmont Park, in the cold city dawn. Pinned to her lapel, a note -- Number One: The Tarantella. A dance of evil has commenced, a sinister medley of high art and base instinct that unfolds over time to its own murderous beat. There will be more bodies, as a ruthless killer leads Flap Tucker through the steps of a pattern only he can unravel.

Flap's "trick, " his Zen-like ability to glimpse the truth behind the curtain, isn't working. The first victim, the cherished niece of the great Atlanta bassist Irgo Dane, leads to another -- the upstairs neighbor of Flap's best friend, Dalliance Oglethorpe -- this corpse marked Number Two: The Tango. Desperate to stop the killer before he can strike again, Flap probes deep into he heart of Atlanta's underworld, enlisting the aid of rival crime czars, the volatile Mickey "The Pineapple" Nichols and the urbane Foggy Moskowitz, and maintaining an uneasy alliance with the Atlanta police detective in charge of the case, who harbors more than a professional interest in Flap's relationship with Dally.

As the killer picks up the tempo, circling ever closer to Dalliance herself, Flap struggles frantically to find his footing in he dark streets of a city where he has lost his way ...

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